The Iowa Independent has a small summary of the recent ruling (which, by the way, the judge stayed, though not before over twenty same-sex couples got married):
The defense presented five interests which they argued were "legitimate governmental interests" served by the current statute. Hanson's decision rejected the fifth interest presented, ( Read more... )

Iowa's ban on gay marriage has been struck down:
Gay rights advocates won a major victory Thursday when a Polk County District Judge ruled the state's ban on gay marriage violates the Iowa Constitution ( Read more... )

I had forgotten about this. Well, I'd never actually seen this video clip, but I recall Alan Keyes claiming that allowing gays to marry and have children would lead to incest because said children wouldn't know who their siblings are. Which is a perfect example of the above mock-definition ( Read more... )

Wow. Gays are so dangerous that you can't even allow a straight person who recognizes that they're people to be allowed into your country:
Leading members of Malawi's Parliament are demanding Britain recall its new ambassador, before he even sets foot in the African nation ( Read more... )

Well, no, they're not.

Instead, they're setting up a commission to determine whether they should upgrade from civil unions to full-blown gay marriage. Their first task is, apparently, to convince people that they haven't already made their decision:
A new commission set up to study whether Vermont should move from civil unions to full marriage ( Read more... )

A recent article in the Journal of Modern History, "Same-Sex Couples Creating Households in Old Regime France: The Uses of the Affrèrement", seems to suggest that there may be a historical precedent for same-sex civil unions, dating back 600 years in France. I haven't read the article yet, but here's an article about it:
[I]n late medieval France ( Read more... )

A week after the fact, I find this open letter to "sharp-minded antihomo" Judy Paris. No idea who she is? Eh, neither do I. Doesn't matter.

Here's part of the open letter that I wanted to focus on, because it brings up one of Paris's "arguments":
I'd like to point something out, though. When you note that "[m]ost scientists agree that it is ( Read more... )

Somewhat hidden in this post is a hint of why people are so obsessed with preventing gay marriage. TRex quotes insecure wanker Jules Crittenden, taking issue with David Neiwert's defense of stay-at-home dads (like himself):
Let's face it, while any real man can wipe a kid's ass, do the dishes and the laundry, read kids bedtime stories, cook dinner ( Read more... )

I'm getting used to people comparing same-sex relationships to bestiality and pedophilia--in addition to Scarborough, there's of course Rick "man on dog" Santorum, and calling gays pedophiles has been a constant theme for a long while.

But comparing same-sex relationships with necrophilia is a new one to me ( Read more... )

A book that tells children that interracial couples gay people are normal, loving couples that should be treated like other people are horrible, filthy items that ought to be banned, or better yet, burned. "We must protect the children from Heather Has Two Mommies!" scream the religious right. Because we all know that "gay" = "buttsex", and ( Read more... )